without a steady supply of parts.

There has been "war" in Turkey with some Kurds there for some time.
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My guess is Turkey could go through the ISIS armies as easily as the US did Iraq. Perhaps easier. But then what?
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The Kurds in Iraq... I do not know what they have and are capable of. But it could be substantial.

...for what it's worth.

mad bloodthirst and of the Obama administration's aiding of these people in Syria. Supplied by the West with fresh supplies and weaponry from Saudi Arabia (one of the prime instigators of sectarian violence in the Middle East), the ISIL is now looking to make Islamic republics out of both Syria and Iraq. And John Kerry, with his pompous ass, is running around talking about giving more advanced weaponry to these religious zealots?

It is only a matter of time that Iran will be forced to become militarily involved, and possibly Turkey (who, like the US and Saudi Arabia, has been assisting the ISIL in Syria).

The leaders of the US intentionally create situations like this in order to continue to feed the war machine and fatten the pockets of military contractors, leading inevitably to call by US politicians to redeploy troops to Iraq to try and fix the mess (again). This can no longer be blamed solely on the criminal Bush regime because Obama has adopted their worldview and is actively destabilizing the Middle East and other parts of the world (Ukraine, for example).

Forget internal American politics and start demanding President Obama stop supporting these crazy-ass zealots in Syria and Iraq!

Iraq is a democracy now. Paul Bremer with '100 orders' to the Iraqi people, bushieboy, cheney all belong in the docket at the Hague. What murderous callousness must have been behind this invasion and 'provincial governing' as created by bremer......was worse than the dictator deposed.

the oil in Iraq was once again nationalized. LOL

The reports are that the Iraqi army has been shedding its uniforms, dropping its weapons, and running away. The only real resistance that ISIL has seen in Iraq has been from Kurdistan, and the Turks have been very adamant that NATO will not arm or aid the Kurd fighters. Since ISIL is being armed and supported by powerful interests in a number of middle eastern nations, they have the arms and funds needed to take the rest of the country. Without support, even the Kurds will fall eventually (and even that is in question, as ISIL is now stating that they will create a dedicated Kurdish state within the caliphate if the Kurds come onboard).

It's easy to understand the appeal of the caliphate idea to the average person in the middle east. Under the previous caliphates, the middle eastern populations largely lived at peace with each other. After the Europeans arbitrarily broke the Ottoman Empire into the nations we see today, most have seen nonstop conflict and war. ISIL is promising to erase the "European imposed borders" and bring about some kind of middle eastern renaissance. That's a hell of a thing to promise people beaten down by decades of strongarm rulers, war, occupation, and division.